Alvis Brigis is writer, video producer and social media entrepreneur focused on the human side of accelerating change. He’s worked extensively in reality and documentary television, co-founded future portal MemeBox.com and serves on the board of the Acceleration Studies Foundation. Alvis blogs about the presnet day “human creativity explosion”, which he sees as an autocatalytic component of broader acceleration, and near-term social change at socialnode.com. He’s currently based in balmy Mountain View, CA as well as snowy Elka Park, NY.

Venessa Miemis is a futurist and digital ethnographer, researching what is happening at the intersection of technology, communication, and culture and how we’re impacted as a society, and what that means for the future. She has recently completed a Masters in Media Studies at the New School in NYC.